“It is important to remember now, amid all this debris, how frightened we used to be.” — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations. — Elizabeth Drew Communication Copy Share Image
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and… — Elizabeth Drew Causes Copy Share Image
The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and… — Elizabeth Drew Acceptance Copy Share Image
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. — Elizabeth Drew Communication Copy Share Image
Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality.… — Elizabeth Drew Constant Copy Share Image
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of… — Elizabeth Drew Accidents Copy Share Image
The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it. — Elizabeth Drew 2012 election Copy Share Image
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the… — Elizabeth Drew Death Copy Share Image
Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda… — Elizabeth Drew Consciousness Copy Share Image
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. — Elizabeth Drew Books Copy Share Image
The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with… — Elizabeth Drew Affection Copy Share Image
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. — Elizabeth Drew Imagination Copy Share Image
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits. — Elizabeth Drew Democracy Copy Share Image
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very… — Elizabeth Drew Animal life Copy Share Image
“And as the story unfolded before the Ervin committee, it began to take on the characteristics of a Russian novel. Someone we… — Elizabeth Drew Books Copy Share Image
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation. — Elizabeth Drew Communication Copy Share Image
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. — Elizabeth Drew Letters Copy Share Image